PROFILE

Joonmo Son is a researcher in the areas of social capital, volunteerism, and health and aging. After his undergraduate program at Korea University, he worked as a TV reporter for seven years—stimulated in part by the reading of Daniel Bell who lamented that sociologists are generally unaware of how social world operates in reality. Subsequently, he obtained his PhD in Sociology at Duke. His research projects boil down to a single question: What do social relations do to us and the world?

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Capital; Volunteering; Health; Economic Sociology; Stratification

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Son, Joonmo. 2020. Social Capital (Key Concepts Series). Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. (https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509513789) 
• Sung, Pildoo and Joonmo Son. 2020. "In-group Trust and Self-rated Health in East Asia Using Quadri-national Survey Data." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 61: 27-58. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020715220937752) 
• Son, Joonmo and Qiushi Feng. 2019. "In Social Capital We Trust?" Social Indicators Research 144: 167-189. 
• Wilson, John and Joonmo Son. 2018. “The Connection between Neighboring and Volunteering.” City & Community 17: 720-736. .